-- So the Big East doesn't deserve to be a BCS conference right? Wait, not so fast. There are nine undefeated teams left in Division I-A football and three of them, West Virginia, Louisville and Rutgers, call the so called undeserving of a BCS bid Big East conference home. Oh the shame. Add to the fact that Pitt is 5-1 with their lone loss coming to a Michigan State team, which counts losses to Notre Dame, Michigan and Illinois as their only defeats this year. South Florida is 4-2 and could very easily be part of the ranks of the Big East undefeated, suffering their two losses by a combined total of eight points (13-7 to Kansas; 22-20 to the top-25 ranked Scarlet Knights of Rutgers). To top it all off there's only one team in the Big East with a losing record. Yeah, we all know who that is.

-- A message to teams preparing for the Huskies. Don't worry about how many little yellow hankies go flying your way. The Huskies aren't taking any advantage of undisciplined play. Navy had 12 penalties for for 110 yards and it never slowed them down.

South Florida had 15 for 113 yards and look how it effected them. Imagine the scores of these two games if both teams got that extra 100 or so back. By the way, UConn is averaging 34.2 yards of penalty yardage per game compared to 64.6 yards by their opponents. That's a positive right? See folks, they're out there.

-- Ever wonder who the powers that be are that control the Associated Press Top-25 football poll and how each of them are voting. If so, this is the place to find out all that information.

From the I'm an auto racing writer at heart department

-- I absolutely hate the fact that Talladega is part of the Chase for the Championship.

-- Jimmie "I got taken out by my teammate" Johnson is a whiner. Brian Vickers was the sole reason why Johnson even had a chance to get by Dale Earnhardt Jr. on the last lap. If Vickers isn't there to help Johnson in the draft he goes nowhere. It was entirely clear that Johnson slowed slightly when Earnhardt tried to block him. At that point Vickers can't help but give him the ever so minor bump he did. Unfortunately for Johnson and Earnhardt, slight bumps at 190 have bad results. Vickers goes on to win. As usual Johnson showed absolutely no class in his post race interview in not even hinting at any sort of congratulations to Vickers for getting his first Nextel Cup win. Wonder if it would be different if Vickers wasn't already inked to drive for a another team next year?

-- I feel bad for my little buddy Mike Anthony (UConn men's basketball writer). Since football season has started my duties covering local auto racing have been curtailed. Mike was enlisted to fill in today to cover a NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour event at Waterford Speedbowl. What should have been a quick event turned into a long night when some sort of light failure at the track caused a pretty substantial delay just before the start. For some reason whenever Mike has filled in for me at Waterford strange things happen. I think the last time he covered a Modified Tour event there the winner got disqualified and it was only the second time in the history of the series that it had happened.

-- You know you've covered a sport too long when your phone rings off the hook all night with people calling you from the race wondering where you are. In three hours this evening I got six phone calls from people at Waterford, and that doesn't include some suicidal text messages from Mike Anthony.